The extent to which depression and obesity are causally related remains to be determined. We used intergenerational data on mother–offspring pairs in an instrumental variable analysis to examine ...

There are different variables at play in this type of statistical analysis, including a dependent variable—the main variable that you're trying to understand—and an independent variable(s ...

"The idea behind the ‘result-effective variable’ analysis is... that a person of ordinary skill would not always be motivated to optimize a parameter ‘if there is no evidence in the record ...

Methods matter: instrumental variable analysis may be a complementary approach to intention-to-treat analysis and as treated analysis when analysing data from sports injury trials. Br J Sports Med ...

The dependent variable – also called the response variable – is the output of a process or statistical analysis. Its name comes from the fact that it depends on or responds to other variables.

Market Demographic Analysis. Demographic variables such as age, gender, income and occupation hold important clues to consumer behavior. People who share the same demographic profile usually have ...

Excessive daytime sleepiness, nonrestorative sleep and sleep behaviors all play a significant role in sleep health, according to results of a network analysis of sleep variables published in Sleep ...

Development and explanation of the 30-item checklist. The 30 items in the checklist were selected based on a previous BMJ checklist,17 an extensive literature review and the authors’ collective ...